developing with speech-to-text

Posted 01 September 2013 - 04:47 PM

Hi everyone,

I want to begin writing a program that utilizes some type of speech-to-text engine but I am afraid that I do not quite know where to begin. I know that at some point I need to import the text result into a c++ program that I will write. It would probably be best that I don't use some other program to accomplish this. I prefer to be able to invoke a library function, or three, of some kind within my own program that will retrieve the microphone input and return the text result so that I can apply some operations to the text it provides. I hope I am explaining myself clearly if not please ask me questions to help clarify further. Any information anyone could offer in how to accomplish this or how to go about it would be welcomed. Thanks.

use the Voice then when finished free the Voice with the Release method

Use CoUnInitialise to end.

Regards

Snoopy.

Thank you Snoopy I will look into the speech API from Microsoft. I haven't done any c++ programming on a windows machine yet though so i'm not sure how to even begin with that either. VS I would assume could help me out there.

Re: developing with speech-to-text

Posted 01 September 2013 - 06:19 PM

Is there a linux equivalent to the MS speech API? I would be interested in information regarding that as well. I'm in the phase of absorbing as much information regarding this topic as possible so feel free to keep the suggestions coming. In the meantime I'll try to find as much info as I can on the MS SAPI. Can anyone offer reasoning as to why one or other would be more beneficial for speech-to-text? (linux vs Windows) Are there any other suggestions or notes pertaining to this subject that I should know? Thanks all.